Re: [opensuse] Connecting to WiFi

Ed Harrison wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

Mark Misulich wrote:

A. den Oudsten wrote:

I want to connect my Aspire 5315, provided with an Ethernet Network Card,
In Vista it's no problem but in suse 10.3 I miss a Yast module for such a job.
Can anybody tell me the steps I have to take to come to a solution?
I'm a user of OpenSUSE sinds long, but no developer.
Thanks in advance.
André den Oudsten


Here is a link to a page which links to multiple methods of getting wireless going in Opensuse:

http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=22475

Personally, I use ndiswrapper to install my WinXP or Vista driver , and it works great.
Here is a link to the various howtos:

http://www.andrewd18.com/ndiswrapper/

Use the 10.2 instructions for Opensuse 10.3. You have to install and use knetwork manager to have a program to detect the various wifi networks available.

Mark

From the packman.links2linux.org site I could install wiki-radar for 10.3, but trieing to start it nothing happened!!
KnetworkManager as well as NetworkManager are installed, but I can't get them to work

What to do?

André

I haven't been following this thread, but had a time getting wifi up.

1. Is there a module loaded? iwconfig as root will show available wireless devices. Without a loaded module AND its firmware, you may see a device; but without both you will never see a network no matter what you use. At least this is the case with my BCM4318.

2. Assuming no module is loaded, do a hwinfo --netcard to see what you have.

3. Mine is a BCM4318, so I installed bcm43xx-fwcutter and wireless-tools.

4. firmware was installed using /usr/sbin/install_bcm43xx_firmware.


modprobe bcm43xx gave me a wireless card when invoking iwconfig. It is not wlan0 as expected, but eth1. Still connects and works.

Ed Harrison

I ran (as root) iwconfig , hwinfo --netcard and lspci -vvv.
In Yast Hardware I also found something
See here:

linux:/home/Andredo # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
th0 no wireless extensions.

linux:/home/Andredo # hwinfo --netcard
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Acer Incorporated [ALI] NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express"
HW Address: 00:1b:38:5b:82:64
Link detected: no

linux:/home/Andredo # lspci -vvv
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Unknown device 0136
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information


Yast2 Hardware

Network Card
NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (eth0)
AR5006EG 802.11 b/g Wireless PCI Express Adapter
Network Interface
Loopback Network Interface
Ethernet Network Interface

CPU
Intel Celeron 530@ 1.73 GHz




I'm very curieus,

André

Attachment: Wireless Report.odt
Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text

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